What You Should Know:
A new survey from symplr®, a provider of enterprise healthcare operations software, reveals the escalating challenges and shifting priorities facing U.S. hospitals and health systems in their supply chains. The 2025 State of Healthcare Supply Chain Survey, which polled nearly 100 healthcare supply chain leaders, highlights a landscape where disruptions have surpassed cost concerns, patient outcomes are a top priority, and a skills gap is hindering
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AdventHealth Enhances Supply Chain Operations with ParkourSC’s AI-Powered Platform
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- AdventHealth, a non-profit healthcare system, today announced a partnership with ParkourSC, a provider of AI-driven supply chain solutions, to optimize its supply chain operations and enhance the availability of critical medical supplies.
- The strategic collaboration will leverage ParkourSC's intelligent Inventory Control Tower to provide AdventHealth with real-time visibility into its supply chain, enabling proactive decision-making and improved
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Clarium Secures $10.5M for AI-Powered Hospital Supply Chain
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- Clarium, Inc., a healthcare technology innovator focused on transforming hospital supply chain operations, has secured a $10.5M in strategic financing round led by General Catalyst, with participation from Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Texas Medical Center Venture Fund, Yale New Haven Health, and existing investors.
- With this new funding, Clarium plans to expand its team, deepen partnerships with leading health systems, and continue refining its
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Healthcare Supply Chains Still in Survival Mode, Report Finds
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Three years after COVID-19 was declared a public health emergency, many healthcare supply chain leaders and frontline professionals are operating in survival mode, according to new industry research from Deloitte Consulting LLP.Ongoing challenges include economic pressures, multiple resource shortages, data visibility and labor issues.
Key Findings
To gain greater insight into these impacts, Deloitte expanded its study by conducting site visits to healthcare
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GHX Acquires Syft, AI-Powered Hospital Supply Chain Platform
What You Should Know:
- Today GHX announced its acquisition of Syft, a leading provider of AI-enhanced inventory control and end-to-end supply chain management software and services.
- As a wholly-owned subsidiary of GHX, Syft joins GHX’s value-based care division’s growing portfolio of solutions that help modernize the supply chain.
Modernizing Healthcare Supply Chain to Overcome COVID-19 Related Challenges
As health systems shift to value-based care as well as overcome
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Shoring Up the Healthcare Supply Chain: 4 Lessons From The COVID-19 Pandemic
In December 2019, the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response told a House committee that “supply chain issues were among the most significant challenges to preparing for an influenza pandemic as well as other infectious diseases.” A few months later, healthcare systems across the country and around the world are face-to-face with that harsh reality, as many of the largest healthcare suppliers are unable to fully meet the growing global demand for personal protective equipment
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5 Lessons from Past Epidemics and Shortages to Help Supply Chains Cope with COVID-19
If we don’t learn from history, are we doomed to repeat it? In 2009, as the H1N1 swine flu swept the globe, U.S. hospitals began to run out of test kits. Some had to set up tents to handle the rush of patients. Supplies of personal protective equipment including N95 respirator masks ran out in many places despite millions distributed from the national stockpile.
Today’s coronavirus crisis is exponentially worse yet eerily familiar. Hospitals in New York, the pandemic’s epicenter, are
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COVID-19: Is Your Hospital’s Supply Chain Ready for Coronavirus?
Chances are good the face mask you’re wearing or have on hand (just in case) was made outside the United States, maybe in China.
In calmer times, that wouldn’t matter much. But when Chinese officials are trying to stem a global pandemic that started in a Chinese city, how likely is it that the country will continue to export face masks at the same rate?
This isn’t a hypothetical. With the spread of COVID-19, aka, coronavirus, we know the answer is not very, and that it impacts a great deal
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Jump Technologies Offers Hospitals Free Supply Chain Solution for Tracking COVID-19 Supplies
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- Jump Technologies offers new supply chain solution free of charge to help hospitals manage utilization of critical supplies and avoid stockouts during high volume COVID-19 response.
- From a single screen, hospitals can easily see where existing supplies are located (in hospital storage or in a warehouse); track consumption by department, clinic, or user; and forecast potential stockouts.
The rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has placed unique
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GHX Acquires Lumere to Advance Clinically Integrated Supply Chains
- Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) announced it has acquired Chicago-based Lumere, a provider of evidence-based data and analytics solutions that enable healthcare organizations to build clinically integrated supply chains and optimize medication formulary management. - As reimbursement models move from fee-for-service to fee-for-value, GHX believes Lumere’s capabilities will extend its value to more directly improve patient outcomes at the lowest cost by empowering customers to make
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